glorify

3 definitions • 6 examples

to praise and honour God or a person:

There are 99 prayer beads - one for each way Allah can be glorified in the Koran.

A statue was erected to glorify the country's national heroes.

to describe or represent something in a way that makes it seem better or more important than it really is:

I didn't like the way the film glorified war/violence.

informal The limousine was really just a glorified taxi.

to praise or honor someone or something, or to make someone or something seem more excellent than is actually true:

The film glorifies the past too much.

He has been glorified in the press.